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- I WILL praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your marvelous works and wonderful deeds!
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- I will rejoice in You and be in high spirits; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High!
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- When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before You.
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- For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging righteously.
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- You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked; You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
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- The enemy have been cut off and have vanished in everlasting ruins, You have plucked up and overthrown their cities; the very memory of them has perished and vanished.
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- But the Lord shall remain and continue forever; He has prepared and established His throne for judgment. [Heb. 1:11.]
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- And He will judge the world in righteousness (rightness and equity); He will minister justice to the peoples in uprightness. [Acts 17:31.]
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- The Lord also will be a refuge and a high tower for the oppressed, a refuge and a stronghold in times of trouble (high cost, destitution, and desperation).
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- And they who know Your name [who have experience and acquaintance with Your mercy] will lean on and confidently put their trust in You, for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek (inquire of and for) You [on the authority of God's Word and the right of their necessity]. [Ps. 42:1.]
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- Sing praises to the Lord, Who dwells in Zion! Declare among the peoples His doings!
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- For He Who avenges the blood [of His people shed unjustly] remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted (the poor and the humble).
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- Have mercy upon me and be gracious to me, O Lord; consider how I am afflicted by those who hate me, You Who lift me up from the gates of death,
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- That I may show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your praises! In the gates of the Daughter of Zion I will rejoice in Your salvation and Your saving help.
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- The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid is their own foot caught.
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- The Lord has made Himself known; He executes judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion [meditation]. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
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- The wicked shall be turned back [headlong into premature death] into Sheol (the place of the departed spirits of the wicked), even all the nations that forget or are forgetful of God.
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- For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the expectation and hope of the meek and the poor shall not perish forever.
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- Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before You.
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- Put them in fear [make them realize their frail nature], O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
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